Chenglong Heaven.
In a small courtyard within Crane-Returning Valley in the back courtyard of Cloudwater Residence, the Dongfang Clan patriarch's estate, Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi were anxiously watching the projection above the pool at the courtyard's center.
"Bam!"
When they saw Du Heng send Xu Taiping flying with a punch, his body crashing heavily into the mountain wall behind him, neither could remain seated. Both rose to their feet.
Looking at Xu Taiping, whose body was almost embedded in the mountain wall in the projection, Dongfang Yuejian stamped her foot lightly and made her decision:
"Master Xuanzhi, whatever Eldest Brother Taiping is thinking, we can't sit here waiting to die."
As she spoke, Dongfang Yuejian looked at Xuanzhi with a solemn expression and continued:
"We're going to the Wilderness!"
Xuanzhi glanced at the gravely injured Xu Taiping in the projection and asked with some concern:
"Can we make it in time?"
Dongfang Yuejian drew a deep breath, then looked out the window toward the high platform shimmering with formation light at the very center of Crane-Returning Valley. Her eyes were filled with resolve as she said:
"We can use the Grand Teleportation Array in Crane-Returning to teleport straight to the Old Dragon Court in the Withered Stone Sea, then return directly to Jiaye Temple through the door Abbot Jiaye left there!"
Master Xuanzhi frowned.
"I remember you telling me before, Miss Dongfang, that using this Grand Teleportation Array would consume three years' worth of your Dongfang Household's earnings in Gold Essence Coins and spirit stones."
Xuanzhi looked at Dongfang Yuejian and continued:
"If you exhaust so many Gold Essence Coins and spirit stones all at once just to save an outsider, won't the elders from the Dongfang Household's other branches force you to surrender your position as clan head